Tiny cocktails are popping up everywhere including the new Flyback flight at Klocke Estate

The Last Melon - a local spirit with a soft, tropical take on a classic Negroni by bartender Zach Wolfgramm at Kindred, Saratoga

Tisean Daniels, GM + Managing Partner of Ama Cocina in downtown Albany, talks tacos, tattoos + the tea on cold-brewed tequila.

The Pancho y Lefty - or cold-brewed tequila - is back at Ama Cocina 2.0.

Ask the expert: Mixologist Madeline Dillon solves a cocktail dilemma with recipes for 2 batched cocktails this summer. Move over Negronis, and batch Dillon’s Hot Tomato Margarita or Peach Whiskey Sour.

Move over espresso martini. Meet the Latin carajillo at Casita.

Adam Minegar, owner of Hemlock in Catskill, talks theater, making the 2025 Esquire best bar list, and opening a craft cocktail bar in a small town upstate.

Quinn Rose Levine crafted Ya Heard as a riff on a Last Word using mostly New York made alcohol. Available at Quinnie’s in Ghent.

Tom Blassman, bartender at Allen Street Pub, talks flair, fencing and crafting cocktails — with a focus on bacon built in.

Tom Blassman of the Allen Street Pub doubles down on bacon in his ‘Little Pig in the Big City’ cocktail with bacon-fat-washed bourbon and a garnish of a bacon-wrapped shrimp.

Kat Dunn, owner of Padrona in Hudson talks hospitality, Cape Cod summers, tiki cocktails and the time-honored tradition of tending bar. Padrona is a cocktail bar in Hudson, N.Y.

Nate Gebhard, official Dean of Cocktails at Night School in Athens, N.Y., talks to The Dishing about theater, growing up in Minnesota + crafting cocktails for a small-town pizza parlor.

Aaron Wilson, co-owner of The Larkin Hi-Fi and Herbie’s Burgers, talks Japanese denim, Martha Stewart, and the scoop on where Herbie’s will open next. The Albany bar owner uses Asian flavors as inspiration at his Tokyo-style record bar. 

Aaron Wilson puts phở  on the cocktail list at The Larkin Hi-Fi Record Bar in Albany’s Center Square.

First set alight and then cooled off with aloe and ice, “Sunburn” is an off-menu cocktail at The Hill, in Troy, a rebrand of The Hill at Muza by new owner Jonathan Blanchard.

Spotlight on a Pour: “Midnight Mirage” by bar manager, Nate Gebhard, at Night School in Athens.